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Your DCist sports editor had a very nice time at the ballpark on Monday, enjoying the return of baseball after a long, hard winter. It was certainly a sight for sore eyes.

But is it possible that I was the only one who actually enjoyed Opening Day at Nationals Park? It sure seems that way.

Yes, the home team got absolutely throttled. But that’s nothing new — especially considering that their opponents, the Phillies, are without question the best team, top to bottom, in the National League. Our beloved Teddy pulled a hammy in the Presidents’ Race and remains winless. And President Obama’s first pitch was hardly the confident strike that many had hoped for. But, at least for me, all of that was easily wiped away by some cool, frosty suds, the patient breezes floating on to my back from the Anacostia riverbank and an incredibly satisfying post-game nap. Baseball is a long season. Those upset over the Nationals’ — admittedly poor — on-field performance Monday should probably find another sport to follow; such panicky individuals are sure to be sent to an early grave, kvetching so hard after what is, after all, but game one of 162.

But the Nats not being very good is far from the only thing attendees were stressing about. Take, for instance, Tom Bridge at We Love DC, whose report had us imagining that he must have been tarred and feathered by raving Phillies fans:

Thanks to the aggressive courting of traveling Phillies fans, the park was majority Phils phans, making Nationals Park into Citizens Bank Park South, in a most embarrassing show for the Nationals. I do hope that the Lerners recognize that this contributed to today’s loss and to the enjoyment of the fans. Most of the Nationals fans left Section 109 early in the game when it became clear that all we’d get to deal with was rowdy Phils fans who wanted to taunt, misbehave, and otherwise abuse our fair city’s dignity.

Postie beat writer Adam Kilgore’s story on the “invasion” — which is apparently what it’s being called — has some real gems as well. (“But, really, to me, the atmosphere just ruined opening day. It just completely ruined it.”) Nationals Enquirer proclaimed that “Opening Day 2010 goes in the books as one of the low points in the brief history of the Washington Nationals.” Nats Triple Play “was never embarrassed to be a fan of this franchise until today.”